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DG: Can we go back a little bit to right when you returned from camp back to Bainbridge Island, and can you tell me what you remember about how you were treated? Especially...

ES: Real good. I mean, I was kind of afraid to... in fact, my, the neighbor girl that I used to play with, she came up and welcomed me. She said, "I'm going to get on the bus with you. You come down there, and you know, I'll take care of you." And, sure enough, she did. And I got on the bus, and it was no different. It didn't, it didn't feel any... it just felt like I was there all the time. And she was, she was very... helped me at school to kind of get... show me where things are there at the high school and stuff. So that was great. And the others just welcomed us back and just continued life as if, as if nothing happened. [Laughs]

DG: Do you remember any, experiencing any prejudice or racism?

ES: No, well, only the one time I said, when I was walking down the hallway somebody yelled, "Jap." But that was only the one time and it never happened again. And that was... I, I, it hit me at first and then I thought, "Oh, forget it." It's just... somebody's feeling, but it never happened again. So it was a good feeling there. I mean, I really appreciate that school.

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